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Are technology roadblocks holding marketers back?

by | Jul 28, 2017 | Marketing, Public Relations

New research finds that marketers at small and midsize businesses are struggling to efficiently reach intended audiences because of technology roadblocks.

Survey results from creative file management firm Bynder, which recently released a new research report, Small Business Marketing, Big Digital Challenge, show that companies lack the technological and organizational structure for safely and securely storing and sharing digital files—including logos, images, video, brochures, white papers, presentation decks and more. Seventy-one percent of respondents, for example, store creative content on their computer hard drives, inhibiting access to and use of digital content and putting files at risk of data loss.

Are technology roadblocks holding marketers back?

The top three additional key findings:

Security is a concern

Only 37 percent of respondents feel very confident about the security of their digital assets in how they’re being stored and shared today.

Employees don’t have the accessibility needed for anywhere and anytime access

Roughly 75 percent of respondents feel limited in how they can share assets internally and externally. Only 38 percent feel very confident in their ability to manage assets so that anyone within the organization can access from anywhere, anytime.

Marketers aren’t prepared to scale and keep pace with business growth

Forty-seven percent of respondents say their top scalability concern is maintaining brand consistency. Thirty-nine percent say it’s getting more reuse out of marketing files. Other scalability concerns include measuring marketing ROI and managing version control and copyrights.

“Marketers need to be where their customers are, but it can be extremely difficult reaching prospective buyers without having the right digital files readily accessible,” said Chris Hall, founder and CEO of Bynder, in a news release. “The findings of our research suggest there’s opportunity to overcome the challenges that have traditionally held marketers back by elevating the importance of universal access to digital content for a competitive edge.”

Download the report here.

Bynder partnered with market research company Survata to collect responses from more than 500 CEOs and marketing decision makers at U.S. organizations with 300 employees or less across various industries.

Are technology roadblocks holding marketers back?

Richard Carufel
Richard Carufel is editor of Bulldog Reporter and the Daily ’Dog, one of the web’s leading sources of PR and marketing communications news and opinions. He has been reporting on the PR and communications industry for over 17 years, and has interviewed hundreds of journalists and PR industry leaders. Reach him at richard.carufel@bulldogreporter.com; @BulldogReporter

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